Developing or Revising Your Personal Mission Statement
1. Identify some areas of your life in which you could benefit from Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind:
Create curriculum that provides process for students and teachers to learn, teach, communicate, research, create and solve problems.
Create website that provides process for students and teachers to learn, teach, communicate, research, create and solve problems.
Create driver education company to create financial earning opportunity.
2. What are the goals that I most want to accomplish?
Create curriculum that provides process for students and teachers to learn, teach, communicate, research, create and solve problems.
Create website that provides process for students and teachers to learn, teach, communicate, research, create and solve problems.
Create driver education company to create financial earning opportunity.
3. What are my major roles?
Self, Husband, Father, Teacher, Community Member
4. What are my Governing Values?
5. What is my 5-year, 10-year, and 20-year vision for my life?
6. When I daydream, what do I see myself doing?
7. If I had unlimited time and resources what would I choose to do?
8. When I look at my work life, which activities do I consider of greatest worth?
9. When I look at my personal life, which activities do I consider of greatest worth?
10. What do I consider to be my most important future contribution to others?
11. What talents do I have, whether developed or undeveloped?
12. Are there things I feel I really should do even thought I may have been deflecting these desires for various reasons? What are they?
13. Who has served as a positive role model for me and has hade a significant impact in my life?
14. Why did these people have such a significant impact?
15. What qualities do these people possess that I would like to emulate?
16. What other qualities of character do I most admire in others?
17. What do I want people to say about me after I’m gone?
18. When I daydream, what do I see myself doing?
19. If I had unlimited time and resources what would I choose to do?
------------------------- A vision statement must be written, in present tense and covers a variety of activities and time frames. It includes descriptive details to anchor it to reality.
Where will I be in 3 years? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? w/ the status quo?
Who is living the life you most envy? Describe what you think it is like.
Who is doing the kind of work you most wish you could be doing? Describe what their work life must be like.
If you only had 6 months, what would you be doing?
What do you want more of in your relationships? Work?
What do you want less of in your relationships? Work?
Describe in detail your ideal work setting and our ideal work day.
Describe in detail your ideal coworkers.
If money were no object, what would your life be like?
Imagine that you are 10 times bolder. What would you do in your primary love relationship? In your work setting? In your community? In your family? In your place of worship?
Imagine that it is Monday morning 9 am, 3 years from now. Where are you? What are you doing? Who are you seeing? What are you wearing?
It’s now noon on the same day. Who are you going to see? Where are you going for lunch?
It’s now Saturday 6 pm. Where are you? What are you doing? Who are you seeing? What are you wearing?
You are now a very old person walking with a school child who asks you, “What in your life are you most proud of?”
You are about to die. What did you accomplish before you left? As a result of your having lived, 3 things have changed or shifted in the world. What are they?
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Reviewing Your Personal Mission Statement
How does my mission statement address all the significant roles in my life?
How does my mission statement represent the deepest and best within me?
How does my mission statement connect with my inner life?
How does my mission statement represent the fulfillment of my own unique gifts?
How does my mission statement express my capacity to contribute?
How does my mission statement address and integrate the four fundamental human needs and capacities: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual?
How does my mission statement inspire me without being influenced by the need to impress others?
The Path 1. Consider the 4 elements: Earth, Water, Wind and Fire. Which am I most like? List 12 characteristics of each. List 12 actions/verbs of what each one does.
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2. Nothing affects the environment of a child more that the unlived lives of a parent – Carl Jung. a. What are your parents dreams? b. How did they affect me? c. Imagine all of the significant people during my childhood in a room. How did each affect me? d. Imagine that each offers you a cup of pain/sorrow/concern. What is in each cup? Which are you willing to drink from? Which are you unwilling to drink from? Which did you drink from? e. Imagine each gave you a gift. Which did I choose to use? Which didn’t I choose to use? 3.a. What is my USP (Unique Selling Point)? b. What did I do as a child? c. Which games/toys did I play (with)? d. What came easy to me? e. What did I want to be when I grew up? Am I close? Why or why not?
4. Make a list of no less than 20 talents I have been given. Which have I buried? Who are you blaming for your talents being buried? Which have I multiplied?
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5. What most excites you in or about the world? What most angers you in or about the world? How can you use what most excites you to affect or change what most angers you? (at least 10 ways)
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Mission Statement: 3 verbs: Explore, Create, and Educate 3 Principles/Causes: 3 People/Groups: Myself, my family, students My mission is to explore _, createand educateto/with/for myself, my family and students.
Mission Statement:
I will act in a manner that brings out the best in me and those important to me – especially when it might be most justifiable to act otherwise.
I will remember that to truly live, I must climb the mountain today, for tomorrow may be too late. I know that my mountain may seem no more than a hill to others and I will accept that.
I will be renewed by my own personal victories and triumphs.
I will strive to keep commitments not only to others but to myself as well.
I will, for as long as possible, keep my mind and body healthy and strong.
In my family, I will build healthy, loving relationships in which we let each other become our best selves.
To say thanks to LIFE in some way, every day.
Finally, to go through life with a smile on my face and a twinkle in my eye.
Developing or Revising Your Personal Mission Statement
1. Identify some areas of your life in which you could benefit from Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind:
2. What are the goals that I most want to accomplish?
3. What are my major roles?
- Self, Husband, Father, Teacher, Community Member
4. What are my Governing Values?5. What is my 5-year, 10-year, and 20-year vision for my life?
6. When I daydream, what do I see myself doing?
7. If I had unlimited time and resources what would I choose to do?
8. When I look at my work life, which activities do I consider of greatest worth?
9. When I look at my personal life, which activities do I consider of greatest worth?
10. What do I consider to be my most important future contribution to others?
11. What talents do I have, whether developed or undeveloped?
12. Are there things I feel I really should do even thought I may have been deflecting these desires for various reasons? What are they?
13. Who has served as a positive role model for me and has hade a significant impact in my life?
14. Why did these people have such a significant impact?
15. What qualities do these people possess that I would like to emulate?
16. What other qualities of character do I most admire in others?
17. What do I want people to say about me after I’m gone?
18. When I daydream, what do I see myself doing?
19. If I had unlimited time and resources what would I choose to do?
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A vision statement must be written, in present tense and covers a variety of activities and time frames. It includes descriptive details to anchor it to reality.
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Reviewing Your Personal Mission Statement
The Path
1. Consider the 4 elements: Earth, Water, Wind and Fire. Which am I most like? List 12 characteristics of each. List 12 actions/verbs of what each one does.
2. Nothing affects the environment of a child more that the unlived lives of a parent – Carl Jung.
a. What are your parents dreams?
b. How did they affect me?
c. Imagine all of the significant people during my childhood in a room. How did each affect me?
d. Imagine that each offers you a cup of pain/sorrow/concern. What is in each cup? Which are you willing to drink from? Which are you unwilling to drink from? Which did you drink from?
e. Imagine each gave you a gift. Which did I choose to use? Which didn’t I choose to use?
3.a. What is my USP (Unique Selling Point)?
b. What did I do as a child?
c. Which games/toys did I play (with)?
d. What came easy to me?
e. What did I want to be when I grew up? Am I close? Why or why not?
4. Make a list of no less than 20 talents I have been given. Which have I buried? Who are you blaming for your talents being buried? Which have I multiplied?
5. What most excites you in or about the world? What most angers you in or about the world? How can you use what most excites you to affect or change what most angers you? (at least 10 ways)
3 verbs: Explore, Create, and Educate
3 Principles/Causes:
3 People/Groups: Myself, my family, students
My mission is to explore _, create and educate to/with/for myself, my family and students.
Mission Statement:
I will act in a manner that brings out the best in me and those important to me – especially when it might be most justifiable to act otherwise.
I will remember that to truly live, I must climb the mountain today, for tomorrow may be too late. I know that my mountain may seem no more than a hill to others and I will accept that.
I will be renewed by my own personal victories and triumphs.
I will strive to keep commitments not only to others but to myself as well.
I will, for as long as possible, keep my mind and body healthy and strong.
In my family, I will build healthy, loving relationships in which we let each other become our best selves.
To say thanks to LIFE in some way, every day.
Finally, to go through life with a smile on my face and a twinkle in my eye.